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Dagoberto Valdés: “Sowing seeds of democracy in Cuba”

In a special report for El Nuevo Herald, the Spanish language daily describes human rights activist and Catholic intellectual Dagoberto Valdés, as a man on a mission who, around the fertile sugar and tobacco fields of Guanajay, Cuba is “sowing seeds of democracy...

Cuba scrapes the bottom on 2015 World Press Freedom Index

Reporters without Borders, the international nonprofit organization whose mission includes “to continuously monitor attacks on freedom of information worldwide,” has just released its annual World Press Freedom Index for 2015. According to the latest...

Group of nonviolent activists pummeled by Cuban state security

According to Martí News, “more than twenty opposition activists from the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU) were physically beaten on Thursday February 5th by forces of [Cuban] State Security in the Santiago locality of Palma Soriano.” According to...

In Cuba we have learned very well our duties but not our rights

Yoani Sánchez recently conducted a sit down interview in Havana with Cuban artist Tania Bruguera, whose #yotambiénexijo project is generating lots of buzz on social media as well as some serious retaliation by the Cuban dictatorship. Bruguera is currently awaiting...

El Nuevo Herald interviews “El Crítico”, Cuban rapper & human rights activist

The Cuban rapper Ángel Yunier Remón Arzuaga, known as ‘El Crítico’ is the only musician who “formed part of the list of 53 political prisoners released at the request of the United States,” according to the interview published today in El Nuevo...